Linking to Your Issue Management System

If you use the issue attribute in your changes.xml file and have the <issueManagement> element configured in your pom.xml, the report will contain links to the issues in your issue management system.

Starting with version 2.4 the plugin comes pre-configured for a whole bunch of different issue management systems. All you have to to is enter your issue management system and the URL to it in your POM. It can look like this:

If you have a previous configuration for <issueLinkTemplatePerSystem> in your POM, you can probably throw that away when you start using version 2.4, unless you use more than one issue management system.

The following table shows the pre-configured issue management systems and the templates they use to create links from your Changes Report directly to the issues in your issue management system.

Note: Make sure that your <issueManagement>/<url> is correct. In particular, make sure that it has a trailing slash if it needs one. The plugin can't add this for you, because it needs to handle different issue management systems. If your issue management system is at http://www.company.com/bugzilla/ the links will not work if you enter http://www.company.com/bugzilla in your pom.xml.

How to Generate the JIRA Report

Note: To use the JIRA Report, the <issueManagement> section in the pom.xml of your project must be configured. It might look something like this:

If you have customizations for JIRA that add additional issue types, or if you are using an IMS that isn't fully-supported in this plugin, you will need to configure any additional issue types here.

For each issue type, you have to map it to one of three action types: add, fix, or update. These terms are a bit arbitrary. By default, for JIRA, add corresponds to 'New Feature', fix corresponds to 'Bug', and update corresponds to 'Improvement'.